Carcassonne: The River
Carcassonne: The River Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
The River is comprised of 12 tiles with a dark back that replace the start tile.
When playing with the River, return the start tile to the box.
Setup
Set aside the "source" tile, as well as the "lake" end tile.
Shuffle the remaining river tiles and stack them facedown. Finally, place the lake tile at the bottom of the river tile stack, and place the source tile on the table as the start tile.
Playing the Game
At the beginning of the game, instead of drawing tiles from the normal land tile stacks, the players draw from the river tile stack until all the river tiles have been placed. River tiles must be placed to continue the landscape and you must place them such that they continue the river specifically. Thus, the river will continue to lengthen until it is capped by a lake at its end.
You may place a meeple following the normal rules. Meeple cannot be placed on the river itself.
Additionally, the tiles showing a bend in the river cannot be placed such that the river loops back in on itself; tiles showing a bend in the river cannot be placed in the same direction as a previously-placed bending tile.
After all river tiles have been placed, the game continues using the normal land tiles.
The sheet shows an example of how the river can look, ending in the lake.